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1845 episodes transcribedSome city and state workers around the country have already begun to resist workplace vaccination rules on religious grounds. Soon those rules will be...
It's one of the most common and perplexing friend mysteries out there - when friends ghost friends. In this episode of NPR's Invisibilia, they examine...
Every generation has its musical "boogeyman." The Rolling Stones, N.W.A., Madonna. And the latest musician to be inducted into this notorious list is...
Thousands of Haitan migrants who were camping out under a bridge in a Texas border town seeking to cross the Rio Grande and find refuge in the US are...
The infrastructure bill moving through Congress includes billions to replace lead pipes. In Flint, Mich., NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with residents on ho...
The FDA Advisory Committee decided not to approve boosters for people sixteen and up. Instead, they made a recommendation for those 65 and up, or youn...
10 years ago, when the Syrian regime sent tanks and warplanes to stop a an uprising, it sparked a bloody civil war that is still ongoing.Learn more ab...
Twenty years ago, during the dog days of summer, a fledgling journalist named Shereen Marisol Meraji — maybe you've heard of her? — headed to Durban,...
After a year away, Broadway's lights are back on. Some of the biggest productions have returned for vaccinated and masked audiences. From "Wicked" to...
Heatwaves don't have names or categories like hurricanes and wildfires, but they kill more people each year than any other weather event, according to...
It has been exactly one month since Kabul fell and the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. With U.S. troops gone from the region and the collapse of...
In India, where arranged marriages are the norm, people typically marry within their religion or caste. But occasionally, some find love on their own...
Last week President Biden announced a six-pronged strategy to combat the newly surging pandemic — including a federal rule that all businesses with 10...
This weekend the nation marks 20 years since 9/11 — a day we are reminded to never forget. But for so many people, 9/11 also changed every day after....
This week, women protested in Kabul after the Taliban announced an all-male interim government. One woman who helped organized the protests told NPR "...
Last week's jobs report for the month of August show signs the delta surge is slowing the economic recovery, just as some pandemic safety net programs...
The good news is that firefighters in California have regained control of the Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe and tens of thousands of evacuated residents...
Most kids are now in their third year of school during the pandemic. It's been a time of ups and downs; adjustments and re-adjustments. Some have flou...
The Supreme Court's conservative majority allowed a Texas law banning most abortions to go into effect. Almost immediately, abortion providers had to...
Some states in the south are have more people in the hospital than at any point during the pandemic — fueled by the highly transmissible delta variant...
